Scattering optics of snow

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1589-1602

  Kokhanovsky, Alexander A ^a,b   Zege, Eleonora P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b B I STEPANOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Belarus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; IMPURITIES; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT REFLECTION; RADIOMETERS; SNOW; SPECTROMETERS;

ALBEDO; CLOSE PACKED EFFECTS; POLLUTANTS; SPECTRAL ABSORPTANCE;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS;

EID: 1542306751     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.001589     Document Type: Article

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